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I’m experienced across the whole stack, with a proven track record in web engineering, cloud architectures, and delivering business-critical systems. I excel at eliciting technical requirements, building customer-facing applications, and thrive in Agile, collaborative environments. I’m passionate about problem-solving, technical decision-making, and optimizing for great user experiences through teamwork and continuous personal improvement.…I’m experienced across the whole stack, with a proven track record in web engineering, cloud architectures, and delivering business-critical systems. I excel at eliciting technical requirements, building customer-facing applications, and thrive in Agile, collaborative environments. I’m passionate about problem-solving, technical decision-making, and optimizing for great user experiences through teamwork and continuous personal improvement.

Kay Macklin

Full Stack Developer, Web Developer, Front-End Developer, +1

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I’m experienced across the whole stack, with a proven track record in web engineering, cloud architectures, and delivering business-critical systems. I excel at eliciting technical requirements, building customer-facing applications, and thrive in Agile, collaborative environments. I’m passionate about problem-solving, technical decision-making, and optimizing for great user experiences through teamwork and continuous personal improvement.…I’m experienced across the whole stack, with a proven track record in web engineering, cloud architectures, and delivering business-critical systems. I excel at eliciting technical requirements, building customer-facing applications, and thrive in Agile, collaborative environments. I’m passionate about problem-solving, technical decision-making, and optimizing for great user experiences through teamwork and continuous personal improvement.

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I’m experienced across the whole stack, with a proven track record in web engineering, cloud architectures, and delivering business-critical systems. I excel at eliciting technical requirements, building customer-facing applications, and thrive in Agile, collaborative environments.

I’m passionate about problem-solving, technical decision-making, and optimizing for great user experiences through teamwork and continuous personal improvement.

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Work Experience

Web Engineer at Unite Students

March 1, 2015 - January 1, 2026

Delivered customer-facing features via full SDLC in Lean Agile squad, building responsive web components with Next.js, Nuqs, and integrating RESTful APIs + GraphQL from Contentful and Algolia (3-6M visits/month). Boosted SEO by implementing JSON-LD Google Schemas and optimized sitemap.xml, yielding 25% more indexed pages and improved click-through rates. Engineered and released new search features using VWO A/B testing and custom event tracking, driving 19% conversion uplift and informing data-driven product decisions. Improved system reliability by cutting critical endpoint error noise by 90% and collaborated cross-team for production incident diagnosis and resolution. Actively participated in code reviews, PR refinement, and technical discussions; contributed to process improvements including test coverage accuracy and test setup improvements decreasing testing time by 30%. Regularly presented sprint progress to product owners and stakeholders, aligning development outcomes with busi

Software Engineer at Singapore - MIT Alliance for Research & Technology

April 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024

Full-stack development of geospatial web application with both serverless cloud-native data types and traditional WMS services. Automate collection and processing of geospatial data from NASA. Configure AWS infrastructure for S3, EC2, SES and implement IAM policies. Write tests following good BDD practices to deliver resilient code in an Agile fashion.

Lead Software Engineer at NACT Engineering

December 1, 2022 - April 30, 2024

MERN-stack development and design of low-latency, real-time drone control web app with high-availability internationally. Programmed authentication protocols, and session management to securely deliver data to clients. Implemented staging environment with automated testing that increased code coverage and reduced production vulnerability. Orchestrated the transition to continuous testing within a CI/CD pipeline including integration and E2E tests that reduced TTD by 70%. Created architecture to minimize dependencies between components, prioritizing flexibility and scalability per startup needs.

Nanochip Production Lead at Silver Factory Technology

March 1, 2021 - May 31, 2022

Managed and coordinated 5 cross-functional operations teams of 25 people leading to increased production throughput by 300% in 7 months. Developed and maintained in-house inventory management system for traceability and product tracking. Led continuous development and improvements via issue tracking, root cause analysis, implemention of operation ally practical solutions. Was a founding member of the startup and obtained ISO13485 certification by writing documentation, risk management, FMEAs, process and software validation reports.